May 2011
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SQL DATEPART(dd, getdate()) vs VB.NET...
WARNING: THIS POST IS REALLY NERDY. While developing a calendar application, I ran into an issue that took hours to diagnose and nearly prompted me to wrap my car around a tree. The issue is this… I was taking a date from SQL, using the DATEPART function to return an integer value for the day of the week, then comparing that to the result of the DayOfWeek function in VB.NET. Here’s...
May 4th
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December 2010
1 post
“Programming may in fact be transforming into an art, one that requires a skilled...”
– Peter Wayner
Dec 7th
November 2010
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“The best way to complain is to make things.”
– James Murphy
Nov 13th
October 2010
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Oct 29th
Anonymous asked: Chris,

Tony Spore suggested I contact you about email and firewalls. I know things are changing quickly, and I'm ready to pitch the email server and have all staff use their Droids and iPhones for email. What do you suggest?

Paul Darafeev
Oct 4th
September 2010
1 post
How To Resolve Most Google Apps Issues
Since switching the majority of my clients over to Google Apps I have enjoyed the speed, reliability and accessibility of their free service. Unfortunately when things don’t go as expected, dealing with Google’s “customer service” is a less than comforting experience. I have found one thing you can do on your own to clear up most issues before attempting to get the boys up...
Sep 28th
July 2010
10 posts
How To Speed Up iOS4 On Your iPhone 3G Or 3GS
If your iPhone 3G or 3GS has been running slow since the iOS4 update, this one modification has made a dramatic difference in how quickly my iPhone responds. This should tide you over until Apple figures out what the issue is. 1) Go to Settings > General 2) Click “Spotlight Search” 3) Uncheck everything Finally, reboot your phone by holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons...
Jul 30th
Hey Jones Supports Ventura's Bid For Google's... →
The application has been submitted to Google, which means that in the coming weeks and months, Google personnel will be carefully going over the submissions and considering which community to choose — which means this is our time to really shine! We have a chance to stand out as the tenacious little city we are, so when Google pulls up our app and, well, Googles us, they’ll see...
Jul 20th
Anonymous asked: Are you guys nerds?
Jul 14th
Hey Jones LLC Joins The Ventura Ventures...
We’re very excited to have been accepted into the V2TC (Ventura Ventures Technology Center), a high-tech business incubator developed in partnership with the City of Ventura and the Ventura Chamber of Commerce. http://www.v2tc.com
Jul 14th
Microsoft Says 74 Percent Of Work PCs Still Use... →
This is pretty unbelievable… it makes you wonder if there’s a Service Pack 4 in the works.
Jul 13th
Gmail Adds Support For Rich Text Signatures →
Since switching most of my clients over to Google Apps, I’ve had quite a few requests for this feature. Now you can format text and add images to your Gmail signature.
Jul 9th
New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET →
This should make developing small data-driven websites much easier.
Jul 4th
New Toll-Free Number
We’ve set up a new toll-free number at (800) 439-1472.
Jul 1st
Jul 1st
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Jul 1st
Reset Your Modem / Router Automatically →
I’ve always wanted to design a power strip that would do exactly what this guy’s managed to do… only he put it in a peanut butter jar.
Jul 1st
June 2010
3 posts
Photoshop ICO Plugin →
Jun 25th
Anonymous asked: What should I do if my printer stops working?
Jun 21st
April 2010
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How To Start/Stop SQL Server Through The Command...
I recently ran into an issue with a client where I couldn’t login to their SQL Server. I was able to access the data files, but because SQL locks the data files while it’s running, I had to find a way to stop the service remotely. I also included the method for stopping and starting the services locally. Note: be sure to run the stop command on the sqlserveragent service first, since...
Apr 13th
February 2010
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“This is not ‘Nam, this is software development; there are rules.”
– Ryan Dunn
Feb 6th
January 2010
1 post
“I honor the place where your hopes and dreams become projected onto my...”
– Fake Steve Jobs
Jan 7th
December 2009
2 posts
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Dec 20th
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Dec 16th
August 2009
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
Aug 11th
March 2009
9 posts
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Mar 10th
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iPodDisk →
iPodDisk is a tool designed to make it easy and intuitive to copy music from your iPod.
Mar 9th
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Growl →
Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen.
Mar 9th
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HandBrake →
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
Mar 9th
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AppTrap →
The uninstaller feature Apple forgot.
Mar 9th
1 tag
MacFUSE →
MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems.
Mar 9th
1 tag
Flip4Mac →
Play Windows Media files in your QuickTime Player.
Mar 9th
1 tag
Perian →
The swiss-army knife for Quicktime.
Mar 9th
Iconfinder.net →
This site is an excellent source for application icons.
Mar 3rd
February 2009
4 posts
1 tag
How To Automatically Open a VPN Connection in...
Once you’ve created the VPN connection in My Network Places, download and install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools from Microsoft. Although it doesn’t mention XP compatibility, it will work. The next step is to create a batch file with the following command: rasdial connection username password So for example, when your connection is named Office, your username is jdoe and...
Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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How To Expand (or Contract) a VMWare Fusion...
I use VMWare Fusion exclusively for my .NET programming environment ever since I got my first MacBook a couple years back. I tend to be not so generous when it comes to the disk space that I allocate to my guest OS, so I’ve had to perform the following process to expand my virtual disks quite a few times. The first step is simple enough, in the Settings for the virtual machine, click the...
Feb 27th
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Convert Quarter to Month
I’ve been having to do this a lot lately, and so rather than creating a case statement every time I set out to create an equation to handle the conversion. Since I never got past Intermediate Algebra, it took a lot longer than it probably should have, but I’m still fairly impressed with myself: m = q + (q * 2) - 2 … and the chalkboard, or trinomial version (thanks Greg): m = q...
Feb 27th
January 2009
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“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs
Jan 27th
September 2008
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May 2008
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August 2005
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